The new command "git restore" (together with "git switch") are added
to avoid the confusion of one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new
users. They are also helpful to avoid ambiguous context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands.
One nice thing about git-restore is the ability to restore
"everything", so it can be used in "git status" advice instead of both
"git checkout" and "git reset". The three commands suggested by "git
status" are add, rm and restore.
"git checkout" is also removed from "git help" (i.e. it's no longer
considered a commonly used command)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since the operation in progress is merge, stick to the 'git merge'
variant of aborting. 'git reset --hard' does not really tell you about
aborting the merge by just looking, longer to type, and even though I
know by heart what --hard do, I still dislike it when I need to consider
whether --hard, --mixed or --soft.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously the switching branch business of 'git checkout' becomes a
new command 'switch'. This adds the restore command for the checking
out paths path.
Similar to git-switch, a new man page is added to describe what the
command will become. The implementation will be updated shortly to
match the man page.
A couple main differences from 'git checkout <paths>':
- 'restore' by default will only update worktree. This matters more
when --source is specified ('checkout <tree> <paths>' updates both
worktree and index).
- 'restore --staged' can be used to restore the index. This command
overlaps with 'git reset <paths>'.
- both worktree and index could also be restored at the same time
(from a tree) when both --staged and --worktree are specified. This
overlaps with 'git checkout <tree> <paths>'
- default source for restoring worktree and index is the index and
HEAD respectively. A different (tree) source could be specified as
with --source (*).
- when both index and worktree are restored, --source must be
specified since the default source for these two individual targets
are different (**)
- --no-overlay is enabled by default, if an entry is missing in the
source, restoring means deleting the entry
(*) I originally went with --from instead of --source. I still think
--from is a better name. The short option -f however is already
taken by force. And I do think short option is good to have, e.g. to
write -s@ or -s@^ instead of --source=HEAD.
(**) If you sit down and think about it, moving worktree's source from
the index to HEAD makes sense, but nobody is really thinking it
through when they type the commands.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The new command "git switch" is added to avoid the confusion of
one-command-do-all "git checkout" for new users. They are also helpful
to avoid ambiguation context.
For these reasons, promote it everywhere possible. This includes
documentation, suggestions/advice from other commands...
The "Checking out files" progress line in unpack-trees.c is also updated
to "Updating files" to be neutral to both git-checkout and git-switch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we switch from one branch to another, it makes sense to show a
summary of local changes since there could be conflicts, or some files
left modified.... When switch is used solely for creating a new
branch (and "switch" to the same commit) or detaching, we don't really
need to show anything.
"git checkout" does it anyway for historical reasons. But we can start
with a clean slate with switch and don't have to.
This essentially reverts fa655d8411 (checkout: optimize "git checkout
-b <new_branch>" - 2018-08-16) and make it default for switch,
but also for -B and --detach. Users of big repos are encouraged to
move to switch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is already the default in git-checkout. The real change in here is
just minor cleanup. The main excuse is to explain why dwim is kept default.
Contrary to detach mode that is easy to get into and confusing to get
back out. Automatically creating a tracking branch often does not kick
in as often (you would need a branch of the same name on a remote). And
since the branch creation is reported clearly, the user should be able
to undo/delete it if it's unwanted.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout" doing too many things is a source of confusion for many
users (and it even bites old timers sometimes). To remedy that, the
command will be split into two new ones: switch and restore. The good
old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until all (or most
of users) are sick of it.
See the new man page for the final design of switch. The actual
implementation though is still pretty much the same as "git checkout"
and not completely aligned with the man page. Following patches will
adjust their behavior to match the man page.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add backticks where we have none, replace single quotes with backticks
and replace double-quotes. Drop double-quotes from nested constructions
such as `"@{-1}"`.
Helped-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I added this option in git-checkout and git-merge in c1d7036b6b
(checkout,merge: disallow overwriting ignored files with
--no-overwrite-ignore - 2011-11-27) but did not remember to update
documentation. This completes that commit.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
<branch> can be omitted in this syntax, and it's actually documented a
few paragraphs down:
You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to
"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
if exists, for the current branch.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's easier to search for and also less cryptic.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A more structured way to obtain execution trace has been added.
* jh/trace2:
trace2: add for_each macros to clang-format
trace2: t/helper/test-trace2, t0210.sh, t0211.sh, t0212.sh
trace2:data: add subverb for rebase
trace2:data: add subverb to reset command
trace2:data: add subverb to checkout command
trace2:data: pack-objects: add trace2 regions
trace2:data: add trace2 instrumentation to index read/write
trace2:data: add trace2 hook classification
trace2:data: add trace2 transport child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 sub-process classification
trace2:data: add editor/pager child classification
trace2:data: add trace2 regions to wt-status
trace2: collect Windows-specific process information
trace2: create new combined trace facility
trace2: Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt
Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the
merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the
original trees to the output.
* en/combined-all-paths:
log,diff-tree: add --combined-all-paths option
Four new configuration variables {author,committer}.{name,email}
have been introduced to override user.{name,email} in more specific
cases.
* wh/author-committer-ident-config:
config: allow giving separate author and committer idents
The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..." now allows to
optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values,
etc.
* aw/pretty-trailers:
pretty: add support for separator option in %(trailers)
strbuf: separate callback for strbuf_expand:ing literals
pretty: add support for "valueonly" option in %(trailers)
pretty: allow showing specific trailers
pretty: single return path in %(trailers) handling
pretty: allow %(trailers) options with explicit value
doc: group pretty-format.txt placeholders descriptions
The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which
long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex
handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the
parse-options API.
* nd/diff-parseopt:
diff.c: convert --raw
diff.c: convert -W|--[no-]function-context
diff.c: convert -U|--unified
diff.c: convert -u|-p|--patch
diff.c: prepare to use parse_options() for parsing
diff.h: avoid bit fields in struct diff_flags
diff.h: keep forward struct declarations sorted
parse-options: allow ll_callback with OPTION_CALLBACK
parse-options: avoid magic return codes
parse-options: stop abusing 'callback' for lowlevel callbacks
parse-options: add OPT_BITOP()
parse-options: disable option abbreviation with PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN
parse-options: add one-shot mode
parse-options.h: remove extern on function prototypes
"git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of
checking out paths out of the tree-ish, that allows paths that
match the pathspec that are in the current index and working tree
and are not in the tree-ish.
* tg/checkout-no-overlay:
revert "checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config"
checkout: introduce checkout.overlayMode config
checkout: introduce --{,no-}overlay option
checkout: factor out mark_cache_entry_for_checkout function
checkout: clarify comment
read-cache: add invalidate parameter to remove_marked_cache_entries
entry: support CE_WT_REMOVE flag in checkout_entry
entry: factor out unlink_entry function
move worktree tests to t24*
`UTF-16-LE-BOM` to `UTF-16LE-BOM`.
this closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2095
Signed-off-by: Yash Bhatambare <ybhatambare@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change it to "linkgit" so that the reference is properly rendered.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For --rename-empty, see 90d43b0768 (teach diffcore-rename to
optionally ignore empty content - 2012-03-22) for more information.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This also validates that the user specifies a single character in
--output-indicator-*, not a string.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 7171d8c15f ("upload-pack: send symbolic ref information as
capability"), we added a symref capability to the pack protocol, but it
was never documented. Adapt the patch notes from that commit and add
them to the capabilities documentation.
While we're at it, add a disclaimer to the top of
protocol-capabilities.txt noting that the doc only applies to v0/v1 of
the wire protocol.
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The former wording implied that --no-commit would always cause the
merge operation to "pause" and allow the user to make further changes
and/or provide a special commit message for the merge commit. This
is not the case for fast-forward merges, as there is no merge commit
to create. Without a merge commit, there is no place where it makes
sense to "stop the merge and allow the user to tweak changes"; doing
that would require a full rebase of some sort.
Since users may be unaware of whether their branches have diverged or
not, modify the wording to correctly address fast-forward cases as well
and suggest using --no-ff with --no-commit if the point is to ensure
that the merge stops before completing.
Reported-by: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The default pre-commit script checks the config variable
"hooks.allownonascii" to determine whether to allow non-ASCII file
names -- mention this in "man githooks", just as the section on
"update" mentions the use of "hooks.allowunannotated".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
submodule's default behavior wasn't documented in both git-submodule.txt
and in the usage text of git-submodule. Document the default behavior
similar to how git-remote does it.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rebase --merge" as been reimplemented by reusing the internal
machinery used for "git rebase -i".
* en/rebase-merge-on-sequencer:
git-rebase.txt: update to reflect merge now implemented on sequencer
Since commit 8fe9c3f21d (Merge branch 'en/rebase-merge-on-sequencer',
2019-02-06), --merge now uses the interactive backend (and matches its
behavior) so there is no separate merge backend anymore. Fix an
oversight in the docs that should have been updated with the previous
change.
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The --autosquash option is implied by the earlier --[no-]autosquash
entry in the list.
Signed-off-by: Emilio Cobos Álvarez <emilio@crisal.io>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These are just some small fixes I noticed doing a complete read-through
(there are a few cases I left that are incomplete or abbreviated
sentences, but I think those are OK in this sort of bullet-list style).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the feature that was eventually committed, "--date=auto" doesn't do
anything. It was generalized to "--date=auto:<format>".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
